u/LowKeyBrit36

Hey there! I've got a Panasonic Toughbook CF-54 (MK-3) that I've already ran ME-cleaner on. I want to go a step further, though, and use coreboot for my system. Looking online, I can't exactly see if there is an available port, if not, how hard is porting it myself?

7th Gen i5-7300u (kabylake, ddr4) for reference. Don't know anything else pertinent to coreboot variants.

Hey there!

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I've been attempting to set up Full Disk Encryption, but haven't been able to figure out how to set up Encryption that fits my use requirements, those being /boot encryption and Luks2 (using Argon), which seemingly doesn't work according to the Full Disk Encryption documentation.

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I think it's an issue with the GRUB version not having support for it yet, but I'm not sure how I can get around that. Is it possible to modify GRUB for the support, or would I have to find a different way to load my kernel? Have tried researching the issue, but haven't found anything yet.

Hey there! I recently got an old Lenovo 8810-94U desktop (I think from, like, 2006?) that I want to try running some basic served utilities with. Any suggestions as to what I would try running? I have 3GB ddr2 ram (going to upgrade to 8GB), some Intel core (2?) processor, and an 80GB HDD (will most likely upgrade if I can find cheap storage), so I'm obviously not looking for anything massive, but I would love to run something CLI based off of it just to learn how to do it.

Hey there!

I've been running KoboldCPP off of a laptop with an 8B parameter model (Aura-8B.Q5_K_M) using a Nvidia 5070 GPU.

I get great processing rates (933.74T/s), but I get (seemingly) awful generation rates (1.82T/s). I have 0 idea why this is happening with the settings I am using. It's also not a VRAM issue AFAIK. I only show 6.5GiB/8GiB used off of my 5070. I have my context set up to 32K, but I see speeds slow down around the 8-10K mark, as they gradually get slower and slower from that point on.

Watching my system monitor in live time, I typically see 95% to 100% GPU usage during the processing phase, and it drops NOTICEABLY to around 0% to 2% usage during the generation process. The awkward thing, however, is that CPU usage spikes from 1% to around 45%, so I'm assuming something is causing Kobold to run the generative process through CPU over GPU (If that's a source of error).

Settings:

-Quick Launch

CUDA

(GPU ID)

GPU Layers -> Auto

MMQ, ContextShift, FlashAttention -> True

Launch Browser, Quiet Mode, MMAP, Remote Tunnel, AutoFit -> False

Context Size -> 32768

(Not repeating previously defined variables)

-Hardware

No KV Offload, Row Split, Debug Mode, CLI Terminal Only, mlock, Foreground -> False

Sensor split, Batch Threads, Device Override -> Undefined

Threads -> 7

Batch Size -> 512

-Context

SWA, Prompt Limit, Param Override, Custom RoPE Config, No BOS Token, Guidance, Jinja -> False

Smart Cache -> True

Cache Slots -> 5

Default Gen Amount -> 512 (Frontend Limited to 100)

Default Params, Override KV, Override Tensors -> Undefined

Quantize KV Cache -> F16 (Off)

MoE Experts -> -1 (Disabled?)

MoE CPU Layers -> 0

All other settings seem unrelated to text generation only, so they are unincluded for brevity.

I have 0 clue how to debug this (if this isn't just a hardware/software limitation), have googled it, read forums, etc to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hey there! I have been looking online to see if there is a graphics module for my toughbook (CF-54G2626VM), but haven't found anything for it. I know similar tough books have dGPU modules available, so I figured I'd ask if one exists for my model specifically, and if so, what component it would replace, if it does replace a component.